ICollection.CopyTo Method

List(Of T).ICollection.CopyTo Method

[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]

Copies the elements of the ICollection to an Array, starting at a particular Array index.

Namespace:  System.Collections.Generic
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

'Declaration
Private Sub CopyTo ( _
	array As Array, _
	arrayIndex As Integer _
) Implements ICollection.CopyTo

Parameters

array
Type: System.Array
The one-dimensional Array that is the destination of the elements copied from ICollection. The Array must have zero-based indexing.
arrayIndex
Type: System.Int32
The zero-based index in array at which copying begins.

Implements

ICollection.CopyTo(Array, Int32)

ExceptionCondition
ArgumentNullException

array is Nothing.

ArgumentOutOfRangeException

arrayIndex is less than 0.

ArgumentException

array is multidimensional.

-or-

array does not have zero-based indexing.

-or-

The number of elements in the source ICollection is greater than the available space from arrayIndex to the end of the destination array.

-or-

The type of the source ICollection cannot be cast automatically to the type of the destination array.

NoteNote:

If the type of the source ICollection cannot be cast automatically to the type of the destination array, the nongeneric implementations of ICollection.CopyTo throw InvalidCastException, whereas the generic implementations throw ArgumentException.

This method is an O(n) operation, where n is Count.

Windows Phone OS

Supported in: 8.1, 8.0, 7.1, 7.0

Windows Phone

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